• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Russia has been coasting on old Soviet stock for a while. Most of their modern t-90s and t-14s have been exploded. They’ve been sending mothballs tanks and apcs to the front for years now. Last year a good deal of frontline troops were using unarmored Chinese golf carts to move around. They never had the manufacturing capability to keep modernized armor at the front, and it is costing russian lives

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      3 days ago

      t-14s have been exploded

      Ehhhh, more like they only had like 15 of the things and none where really out of a prototype phase. Not worth sending due to the bad propaganda when they do get blown up (since there has been no tank platform in that conflict that does not get got).

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        2 days ago

        I think Ukraine scored kills on one or two t-14s in the first year before Russia realized their mistake. I’ll have to double check though.

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          Why is it impossible for a squadron of F-22s to defeat a squadron of SU-57s?

          Russia would have to actually build a squadron first